George M. Hall Travel Diary
The George M. Hall Travel Diary was written on a trip to South Africa to attend the XV International Geological Conference in 1929. Hall’s journey began and ended with a shipboard journey of a month, and he spent another month before and after the Congress traveling around Africa, for total of five months recorded in the diary. He describes his travels, people he met, lectures and mine tours, and his ideas about contemporary issues such as Prohibition. At the back of the book are a list of names and addresses of people he met, as well as a list of letters and wireless messages he wrote and received during his travels. Also included is a Western Union telegram signed "Margaret", sent from Knoxville to New York City before Hall set sail.
Dates
- 1929 May 30-September 23
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Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Abstract
The George M. Hall Travel Diary was written inside of a 1928 appointemnt book on a trip to South Africa to attend the XV International Geological Conference in 1929. Hall’s journey began and ended with a shipboard journey of a month, and he spent another month before and after the Congress traveling around Africa, for total of five months recorded in the diary.
Biographical / Historical
George Martin Hall was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 13, 189a, to George Arlow and Alice Josephine Higgins Hall. After graduating in 1909 from Baltimore City College, a selective high school located in Northeast Baltimore, Hall attended Johns Hopkins University, obtaining his bachelor’s degree in 1915. He entered the Signal Corps of the United States Army in March 1918, reaching the rank of Second Lieutenant until November of 1920. He returned to Johns Hopkins that December to begin his Ph.D. in Geology, which he completed in 1923.
While studying and over the summers, Hall’s geologic work included several years of field work, as well as an appointment as Assistant Geologist for the US Geologic Survey studying ground water resources in Montana. In the fall of 1923, Dr. Hall began teaching geology at his alma mater, where he continued until leaving for an Associate Professorship at the University of Tennessee in 1926. He was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Geology and Geography in 1929, a position he retained until his death in 1941.
Dr. Hall was a fellow or member of many organizations throughout his career, including the Geological Society of America, the Mineralogical Society of America, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and the Society of Economic Geologists. He attended two other meetings of the International Geologic Congress, held in Spain in 1929 and Washington, DC in 1933.
George Martin Hall died on April 28, 1941. He had been ill for at least three years, and was living in Baltimore while on a leave of absence from his duties at UT at the time of his death. He is buried in Lorraine Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland.
Arrangement
This collection consists of a single folder.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository